From Chief to Ball

So before Chen Jian came up with the second rule, someone came up with it first: When you ask for shells or colored glaze, hide them in a wooden box and don't reveal them.

Chapter 86 A New History

The entire alliance lasted from the ninth day of August to the thirteenth of August, and they quarreled for five days. There were countless times when they attacked each other and even fought each other, but the rules and the fallacies thrown out by Chen Jian were also perfected day by day.

Indeed, today's objective material aspects such as roads, communication, and culture are not enough to form a country with an imaginary community of similar people such as language, habits, customs, and sacrifices. Then why can't this material condition grow day by day? How about using public opinion to keep people's way of thinking up to speed with material changes?Therefore, after the material conditions are met, it will be a matter of course, the relatives will be integrated, and the leader of the alliance will be authoritative, which is a matter of course.

Nothing is taken for granted, just an extension of habitual thinking.

For example, in this era, most people don't think about it, why do they have to worship their ancestors?In their view, worshiping ancestors is as natural as the sun in the sky and the moon on the earth.

Even morality is the same.Honoring parents is a matter of course.But after careful study, it is possible that because of not being filial to their parents, there is a dark core in it that their children will not support themselves when they grow old.

The origin of this customary thinking is the restraint for the destruction of human beings by their animal nature.

After the emergence of class, it becomes a supplement to the embodiment of the will of the ruling class, causing the general belief of the bottom in the form of public opinion, supplemented by primitive morality such as respecting parents, and integrating what is wanted to be instilled with the common choice of human beings.

Most people only have the way of thinking of good and bad. Not supporting their parents is bad. Why is it bad?Because it violates morality, everyone supports it.From this, it follows that anyone who violates the rule of "everyone does this" must be a bad person.Bad guys are bad, let's not do it.

When the things that "everyone does it and it's a matter of course" are mixed with some things that the upper class wants everyone to do, and when they stick together and cannot be separated and cause confusion in definitions, it is when public opinion propaganda is successful.

Whether it is the theory of tigers beget tigers or cats beget cats in various clans, or Chen Jian's desire for the unity of relatives, they are all confused with those things that are accepted by the bottom.Five points in the rules are bullshit that has been taken for granted, and the other five points are fused with those and strive to be taken for granted.

Chen Jian put forward a total of [-] rules. From the third time, it was a secret vote. Of the [-] rules, [-] were approved and [-] were rejected.

The approved rules include the circulation of goods in each city, and no city can block or levy taxes; relatives in the cities can exchange freely; each city needs to send priests to Onozawa to learn characters, etc.

With a common interest base and threat, many rules can be passed, but if the Great Alliance succeeds last winter, I am afraid that none of these rules will be passed. Sometimes some people with different interests are kicked out, and the cohesion will be higher.

Others also put forward more than 20 strange rules, including those that Chen Jian didn't want to see, but at this time he had to compromise and retreat in order to seek the support of other clans.

A total of 38 articles were compiled, and it was agreed that they could continue to be added in the future, as the general outline of the code of conduct for all relatives, cities and clans, but it is not a cumbersome and detailed introduction like "Book of Rites".

The leaders of each city will meet every two years in the city where the leader of the alliance is located, and continue to standardize the rules.Every year, according to the size of the city, the rich and the poor, each city divides the sacrifices that need to be paid to worship the ancestors, and the leader of the alliance presides over the sacrifices.

In addition, each city will elect a wise person to form the elders of the tribes of Dahe, responsible for supervising the fulfillment of the obligations of the leader of the alliance, and at the same time judging right and wrong on behalf of the clans in accordance with the rules. In the city where the leader of the alliance is located, elections are held in rotation every three years.

Every city must elect a person to explain the rules of these alliances to the people of the country, and they must not hide them.

The leaders of each city must cultivate successors before they grow old, and replace the old leaders when they are old, so as to reduce disputes and internal frictions caused by sudden death.

When the new leader succeeds, report to the Council of Elders, and the Council of Elders will succeed to the position of leader in the presence of the Council of Elders, and vow to abide by the rules of the tribes of the Great River before succeeding.

The disputes of the various clans must first be mediated in the alliance, and only if they cannot be mediated can they fight. The rest of the cities are strictly forbidden to intervene in internal disputes, and methods such as digging river embankments and burning millet fields are not allowed in the battle. Battle in the field, or in the form of enemy duel, car battle, bow shooting and so on.

Even though there are so many rules, it is still a tribal alliance with a little close connection in essence. At this time, it is impossible and impossible to achieve true absolute authority. However, due to foreign wars, floods in major rivers, etc. strengthen.

The rules are just the beginning. From the legal point of view, the people in each city accept the fact of the kinship alliance and constrain their way of thinking.

With the development of productivity, the connection of roads and water transportation, the trade between cities, and the dissemination of writing technology in Xiacheng, the connection between cities will become closer.So as to create material conditions for the unification after a long time.

After the 38 crude rules were finalized, it was already the night of August [-]th. Although everyone was tired, they still made a secret covenant in the secret room that they could not reveal to others.

The secret covenant includes ensuring the succession of their own heirs or the person they want to elect; when it is not guaranteed, each city must intervene armedly; marriage must be carried out within each leader's family; slaves; and the decision to conquer several clans that had withdrawn from the alliance next summer.

In addition, it is about the following.

The types of performances of the Xiacheng touring troupe are not allowed to promote Xiacheng’s non-blood selection system, Onozawa is not allowed to recruit common people from various cities, and it is not allowed to advocate Xiacheng’s land system and it is strictly forbidden to affect other relative cities; Officials who assist the leader must have a certain amount of land. Xiacheng is in charge of concocting a batch of drama performances advocating the theory of blood lineage, constant production and perseverance, etc., and at the same time requires Chen Jian to write a part of these logically achievable facts as a secretary. Jurisprudence and so on.

For this, Chen Jian made a great concession, accepted it completely, and guaranteed it. At the same time, he apologized for the performance of the Xiacheng Touring Troupe, and compensated a part of the bronze to show that it was not an example.

Then he raised a question that all the leaders were concerned about: How should Xia Cheng help them train the army and teach those children?

Chen Jian's promise was: [-] soldiers from the city, [-] soldiers from the clan, and after three years, they will be rotated to ensure that the combat effectiveness is similar to that of Xiacheng's black army.The Chengyi clan sent about ten pro-nobility and famous young people to study in Onozawa for a period of five years.Five years later, he will teach those children to read, count, farm, manage, train, etc., and hand over the city to the soldiers he trained to govern these children. He is not qualified to command the soldiers they sent to train.

His condition is: within five years, the armor, weapons, and food of these soldiers will be borne by each city.During the period when the child is studying in Onozawa, he has the rights of jurisdiction, punishment, and punishment. Once he is expelled for misbehavior, he will never be allowed to enter Onozawa.When the children are studying in Onozawa, they should call him Mr., treat themselves like Uncle Zhong, and so on.

There are not many conditions, and compared to the promise, they can all be met, except that some people object to the title of Mr. Chen Jian, saying that Chen Jian is not very old, and is about the same as some children. How can he be born before him?But since he was guided by his ancestors and knew something earlier than others, he should be called a prophet.

Chen Jian resolutely opposed the title of prophet and insisted on the title of Mr., so everyone had no choice but to give up.

All that remains is to consider which son or daughter to send.

Su Yue had already set an example by asking Su Tang to follow Chen Jian and sending the children of the closest families in the city.

Since this is the case, the rest of the people also understand that if they can really learn all kinds of skills in Xiacheng within five years, the person who will come back in the future will have twenty personal guards in his hands and a way to govern the city. If it's human, it can only be for your favorite children.In five years, I will not be old. After five years, there will be plenty of time for them to accumulate reputation in the city. Besides, only the children I may succeed in the future will be the least likely to be deceived by Chen Jian, so they can only think about my city wholeheartedly. For the city will be theirs.

Because of the long distance, it was decided that after the Huaizi Festival next year, the children and soldiers would gather in Sucheng.As for those who just follow, let them follow directly.

The time of farewell was on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, and there was no mid-autumn festival at this time, but the moon was still full and the sky was getting colder.

A group of relatives and noble children of all ethnic groups who were about the same age as Chen Jian by the pier all called Mr. Chen Jian. After returning the gift, Chen Jian glanced at their parents, and said to himself that when these children go back five years later, you must not have imagined what it will be like. What does it look like, when the time comes, your sons and daughters will pull you down from the position of leader.

The young people are full of longing for their journey in the next five years. Xiacheng has a lot of strange and good things. After watching Xiacheng's play, they naturally think that the women in Xiacheng are as beautiful and coquettish as Shiqi, and they all have a good voice. There are also those good things that I have never seen before, and after I finish my studies, I will be the same as Ji Xia. Who would not be convinced when I return to the city like that?

It's just that a girl in the crowd frowned and pursed her mouth, not very happy.

A young man who was originally the same age is now a husband, and it's nothing like a husband, but he insists on treating him like his own uncle.But could it be possible that he likes his uncle? What is that?With the river's ups and downs full of thoughts, no one can listen and no one can tell.

Hearing the chattering of several people next to him discussing what the city in Onozawa was like, he couldn't help but feel agitated. He raised his head and looked at the river in the distance, waiting for the boat to come.

When the sail shadow appeared on the river in the distance, the girl sighed leisurely, glanced at her "sir", and found that the other party was drawing the city wall of Sucheng on a piece of sackcloth with a charcoal pen. I compared the protruding place, nodding and shaking my head from time to time, but I didn't know what I was doing.

When the boat docked, he just waved his hands to let the people in black clothes in Xiacheng lead the young people to board the boat, and he was still thinking about it.

But not long after, a few people in gray linen clothes jumped out of the boat, holding a dark stone in their hands, carrying a big wicker basket full of strange stones, and ran to "Mr." Said a few inaudible words.

The "Mr." who had been indifferent all this time suddenly jumped up, dumped the wicker basket on the ground, picked up a few stones, asked many questions anxiously, and finally jumped up like a child and turned over. , Holding up two broken stones and laughing, he is no longer as old-fashioned as before.

The girl didn't know that a few broken stones, or a new history, even represented history more than the word itself.

Chapter 87 Changes

on board.

A dozen or so late comers were explaining.

"Our horse was bitten..."

Chen Jian waved his hand directly and said, "There is no need to explain, this is my personal matter, and I will not use military law. Where did you find this black stone?"

"There is a mountain on the west side of Onozawa, just by the river, and there are quite a few of these things in the river. We thought it was weird, and we also heard you mention this kind of charcoal-like stone, so we brought it back."

Chen Jian excitedly knocked on the board of the boat and said, "There is one by the river? How wide is the river? How deep is the water? Is it turbulent?"

"Forty paces wide, not rushing, can walk a boat."

"Good! Good!"